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Distance Education Internships

Explore the benefits of distance education internships for students, universities, and potential employers. Learn about the components, challenges, and successful models of internships in emergency management, fire science, and homeland security.

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Distance Education Internships

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  1. Distance Education Internships Steve Carter, Academic Director Emergency Management Fire Science Homeland Security School of Undergraduate Studies

  2. What is an Internship “A training period in actual service as an employee in a technical or business establishment.” (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary)

  3. Why utilize Internships? • Student • Learning Experience • Sample of the Profession • Career Choice • Potential Employer • Host • Quality Inexpensive Staffing • Potential Employee • Input into Higher Education Process

  4. Benefits to University • Educational Setting Beyond Our Capability to Provide • Liaison with Organizations in the Discipline • Input into Program Outcomes and Course Objectives • Adjunct Faculty Recruiting

  5. Distance Education Difference • Locating Internship Opportunities • The Working Adult Student (85%) • Remote Worksites • Lack of Daily or Weekly Faculty Involvement • Intervention from a Distance • “Sympathetic Host” Syndrome

  6. UMUC Development Experience • Optional Cooperative Education Program for 3 or 6 credit Internships has been in existence for more than 20 years in all majors • Emergency Management Development Focus Group Asked for Required Internship (“Give us educated graduates with some experience.”)

  7. Model Internship Components • Proposal • Goals/Objectives • Deliverables • Deliverables • Host • Course • Contract • Student • Host • Faculty Mentor

  8. Model Internship Components - 2 • Distance Education Classroom • Faculty Mentoring • Evaluation of Student Performance • Host Representative • Faculty Mentor • Evaluation of Program by Student, Host and Faculty Mentor

  9. Process • Prerequisites • Learning Proposal and Contract • Objectives • Tasks including Deliverable • Classroom Assignments • Progress Report (Shared) • Academic Assessment (Preparation) • Organizational Profile • Reflection Paper

  10. Process Continued • Host Site Experience • Learning Proposal and Tasks • Deliverable • Evaluation of Deliverable by Host Representative and Faculty Mentor • Student Course Grade • Program Evaluation

  11. Challenges Developing Deliverables Coordinating Across Long Distances Security Issues on Military and Government Assignments Developing Mentors Support on Deliverables Host Engagement including Evaluation

  12. Other Successful Models

  13. Questions???

  14. From Me to You! Steve Carter sscarter@umuc.edu

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